Gameplay

The game covers the first 70 episodes of Naruto, primarily the Prologue — Land of Waves and Chūnin Exams arcs. During the game's first play-through, the player is restricted to using Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and occasionally Kakashi. After the game is completed, other characters can be unlocked (including villains) by first beating them in a side-story mission.

Characters also have a wide range of techniques available. Players can equip items to characters such as chakra pills, healing items and ranged weapons such as kunai and shuriken. Characters can create clones which can be used as decoys and some characters can create full-bodied clones which can be used in combination attacks and to perform offensive techniques. Characters can also use the transformation techniques to take on the appearance of another character, to trick the opponent.

This game includes many of the main cast along with a special appearance by Masashi Kishimoto as a hidden character. It is also the only game that has the members of Team Dosu as fully playable characters.